y}P -or- The Confessions of a Copy Paste Programmer

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You called me what?

“Copy Paste Coder.” Them’s (more than any other insult in the history of geeks), well, them’s fighting words.

But you know - I can’t take it any more. I have to come clean…

I’m a copy-paste programmer. And I’m going to give you 5 good reasons that you should be too!

1. Focus - Being able to quickly rough in your code means you can focus on the actual problem you’re solving. Remember the problem?
2. Flexibility - How many times have you spent days perfecting your square peg only to realize a month later that the hole was round.
3. Stability - Raise your hand if you’ve ever refactored before having a complete set of regression tests. Anyone? I know it’s not just me.
4. Speed - It’s all academic until you get it working!
5. Reality - That data binding framework you have to implement before you can start your killer guestbook app…You will never use it again.

We’re programmers. We love the abstract, the beautiful, the complete. But sometimes we just need to stop trying to be fancy and just WRITE THE DAMN THING!